Kiss – God of Thunder Live

Mike Ferraro telling stories… Check out DoubleCross for a “back-in-the-day story” from Mike Ferraro from Judge. Very cool site, you can get your straight edge fix.

credit: Mike and Jimmy with Judge at CBGB’s, Photo: Jeff Ladd

Kool G. Rap ft. Nas, Fast Life, 1995

I still get caught referring to my iPhonePod as my Walkman, I’m a bit slow. Here’s this kids rundown, great in concept (where are you 60 Minutes?)

Jay-Z, Where I’m From, 1997

Okay, not really. But the video for “Fuck You(explicit) is really cool.

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Do The Right Thing turns 20, it also means Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, is also 20 years old. The film and the song brought attention to the racial divide that in America.  If you never seen the film please do, it’s Spike Lee’s masterpiece, and it still holds up and asks the same powerful question.

Spike Lee and the movie’s cast – Danny Aiello, Joie Lee and Rosie Perez – as well as Common, DMC, Branford Marsalis, Gloria Reuben and others will be on hand Monday night at the DGA Theater in Manhattan for a special screening of the movie. Via

Tribute to Eazy E titled “Ruthless”, 20×30 on canvas by Mike Orduna

This morning just for kicks I searched the term ‘Mondays’

We are pleased to present our sixth installment of Sound Advice featuring enormouschampion, a Brooklyn-based duo who create things.

Sound Advice 06 – Enormous Champion

A Side

01. She Bangs The Drums  – The Stone Roses
02. Feelin’ – The La’s
03. Ask – The Smiths
04. Oh! You Pretty Things – David Bowie
05. In My Mind – Firehose
06. Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack
07. The Magnificent Seven – The Clash
08. Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure
09. Freak Scene – Dinosaur Jr.
10. Baby I Love You – Ramones
11. In a Big Country – Big Country
12. Streams of Whiskey – Shout Out Louds
13. Eye Know – De La Soul
14. Simmer Down – The Wailers
15. Skinny Love – Bon Iver
16. I’m Gonna Make You Love Me – The Supremes & The Temptations
17. I’ll Come Running – Brian Eno
18. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – Neil Young
19. Apology Song – The Decemberists
20. Shady Lane – Pavement
21. Midnight Moon – Smoking Popes

B Side

22. Let’s Get Out of This Country – Camera Obscura
23. Waiting For The Sirens’ Call (Remix)  – New Order
24. Hardwood Pews – Horse Feathers
25. Mornings Will be Kind – Midlake
26. Late Blues – Ida
27. The Melody of a Fallen Tree – WIndsor for the Derby
28. Birth of Ghana – Lord Kitchner & Friends
29. Music Is My Radar – Blur
30. Punk Rock Girl – The Dead Milkmen
31. My Weakness – McRad
32. Digsy’s Dinner – Oasis
33. Nothing To Be Done – Teenage Fanclub
34. Off the Record – My Morning Jacket
35. Soon – My Bloody Valentine
36. But Not Tonight – Depeche Mode
37. Wave of Mutilation – Pixies
38. Headstart for Happiness – The Style Council
39. Twisterella – Ride
40. She Rides the Waves – Pale Saints
41. Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks
42. Northern Sky – Nick Drake

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EPMD, Crossover, 1992

While this show at Gallery2 in Seoul, Korea has already closed, Donghyun Son’s work deserves a look.

“The show, titled KING, is filled with portrayals of Michael Jackson, done in portraiture. The artist says a turning point in Michael Jackson’s career was the year 1989, when Elizabeth Taylor called him the ‘king of pop, rock and soul’ at the award ceremony for Artist of the Decade. It was then Jackson became a king, coronated by a queen of the entertainment world; this is poignant, considering that in 1989 kings of social rank no longer existed.”

A couple favorites and more explanation after the jump

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Public Enemy, Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos, 1989

This piece by Leon Reid is pretty great. (note: if you click the link, you may want your sound off!)

Leon Reid

I ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE TOO
USA / 2006
6.5 in. H x 5.38 in. W
Collage on Paper

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Wrong Place, 1994

Totally feeling this one

If you’ve ever wondered what The Enablist’s dreams look like, this is pretty close.  Yes that’s right, I dream in awesome.  As always, fresh stuff coming out of Mad Decent.